Legend

who stood between Ray and Ver. That was Custe who had obstructed us when we tried to attack Ver earlier.

But there is no light of will in his eyes, and he stands in front of Ray without making him feel his will as if he had been somewhere sumptuous.

"Look, now the Wall Role is solved"

Behind Custe like that, Ver turns his gaze to Ray with the same madly stained grin. But...

"You could certainly use it as a wall actor. But what I'm reading is Custe. As you know, there is an overwhelming difference between me and Custe in the sense of pure strength. And yet you're willing to leave the wall to one Custe?

Ray focuses his consciousness on the signs of the two remaining people who are fainting while deliberately telling him to provoke.

(If Elaine and Arla were to be manipulated by any means, they would brag about cutting that card here because of Ver's personality...)

Ray was trying not to miss out on everything around him whining inside, but Ver's reaction to it was unexpected.

"I certainly don't think Custe extends to Ray if he's in normal condition.... but what if it's not normal?

"... what?

"In the first place, come on, can't you generally expect that if you use magic drugs that manipulate a person's consciousness, the subject's abilities won't be fully demonstrated? Whatever the movement that stains your body, for example, your thoughts on combat and the surrounding area are less than manipulated enough.... Well, there are more sophisticated magic drugs in the world than anything I've used, so some of them are substitutes for manipulating that kind of thing completely irrelevant. Unfortunately, the magic pills I used this time aren't that high performance guys, are they?... At all, I think the Bestian Empire is too bound by the details of the technology being made known outside. That Kamakiri thing was pretty awesome."

"... Kamakiri, you say?

Kamakiri. What comes to mind with that word is a giant monster who came into contact on his way from the city of Gilm to this dungeon. That monster that used something like an optical camo, blended into the surrounding scenery and was waiting for us, and as soon as we defeated it, melted into all the evidence obliteration and disappeared.

"I see. Was that your trick too? And you were surprised."

"Hmm? Oh, no, no. I'm sure that monster is the work of the Alchemists of the Bestian Empire, but I'm not involved in that. I mean, even if I had betrayed the kingdom of Mireana, I don't think I'd have to figure out which one to give priority to if I had the chance to kill General Elaine the Princess."

I mean, you were a stone thrower, too.

Ray talks about something more provocative, but when he hears about it, Ver hears the wind all the time from Willow without looking comfortable at all.

"Well, I guess that's what I mean. That's fine. If you're going to die of stone throwing, it means I was there to that extent. Naturally, I don't mean to be taken seriously.... Looks like I'm buying more time than that, but I don't think it's gonna be that easy to wake up to Elaine, Ara, Custe, right? Besides, you're not the only one who's been buying time.... I think it's time."

With a smile on his face, he shows the whistle he took out of his nostrils.

The moment I saw that whistle, I had a zorky unpleasant feeling about Ray's spine...

"Seto!"

"Grrrrrrrr!"

Seto releases a windarrow at the same time as Ray's call. Running through the side of Custe, who is playing the arrows of the unleashed wind with the demon spear of the water, he swings down the death size by hanging on to Ver, who took the whistle to his mouth.... No, at the moment I tried to shake it down, multiple egg-like objects were released from the tentacles that had covered Vel's entire body without any pulse.

"Chi!

It was almost reflexively a ray that dodged that egg, or slashed and torn at death size, but in that gap Vel was jumping backwards to distance himself from the ray. Then he breathes heavily, breathing that breath into the whistle he had in his hand.

Psst, I wonder if the tall sound of it echoed around me. Seto, who was releasing the windarrow in a row, jumps away from where he's been. And the next moment......

Boom! And he stood down to the place where Seto was until a moment before something about the same size as a human was made.

If Seto had been a little hesitant to leave the spot sticking to release the windarrow, it would have been Seto's spine, not the cobblestone ground, that had been crushed by now.

"... is that the guy who benefits from alchemy too?

Ray, who once retreats with Seto, opens his mouth with his gaze toward something that has fallen at a distance from Ver, Custe.

"Yes, yes. One loaned to me by the Bestian Empire on this mission. You're a guy called the Golem. Well, if you look at it, it's pretty high-performance compared to a regular golem. Instead of letting Seto sense us, he was following us."

Golem. It is a form of artificial life that is created by alchemy using a variety of objects such as stones, earth, trees, or bones. But even if I say artificial life form, there is basically no such thing as emotion or will, just a kind of robotic impression if I try to lay it down so that I can faintly carry out the orders given to my husband.

And indeed, the golem now in front of Ray was very different from what Ray found out in Zeppyre's knowledge, or from what he saw in books such as the library. First of all, its size is different. A normal golem is a lot of things around 3m, but the golem is so much the same height as Ray's. That is, about 1.6m. It's about half the size of a regular golem.

(More like an automata than a golem... No, I don't have that concept in this world, so I guess a golem would be fine)

Think inside as you death-size to the golem that stands in front of you with Seto.

(Esta Knoll, the alchemist at Zeppyre Gate, could have made this level of golem... because according to Zeppyre's knowledge, he was passionate about developing magic items but didn't seem to be interested in the kind of golem)

"I don't think putting in this golem will change my advantage in the end. Hit Seto in the golem and I'll deal with Custe and you."

"Hmm, well, you certainly would if you thought about it normally.... if you think about it normally"

That being said, it was again like a jewel in the shape of a triangle cone about a few cm removed from the nose. For a moment I also thought it was a demon stone, Ray, but it's obvious to say in its shape that it's not a demon stone.

"Does this bother you? Hey, this is how I use it...!

Shake down the hand holding the gem of the triangle cone as it is.... to Custe's neck. And...

"Damn, but ahhhhhhh!

At that moment when the tip of the jewel pierces, it enters the body of Custe from the neck muscle as if the jewel were some creature, and at the same time a beastly scream is emitted from Custe.

"Oh? Was it more shocking than I thought? Maybe he regained consciousness?

It was Ver who turned his gaze to Custe with his eyes as if to see even an interesting play, but in the next moment the colour of joy floats in his eyes.

"Nah... what, what have I been doing? The pain that runs on this body..."

Yes, Custe, who must have lost his mind, woke up.

And I notice Ver peeking into my face with funny eyes, and at the same time, I remember what happened before I lost my mind at that moment.

"Ver, you!... What!?

It was Custe who tried to stick the demon spear in his hand to Ver with almost reflexive movements, but at the next moment he realizes that he will not move at all from the neck of his body.

"Ver, what have you done to me!

Custe stares at Ver with a mighty murderous gaze. If you can kill someone with your gaze, it's a gaze with a strong enough intent to kill to probably make you think that Ver would have died at this point.

"What, you don't remember? Look, you've been drinking water in my water bottle a couple of times before, right? There was magic medicine in it. Oh, before they ask, I'll tell you, I'm fine because I'm on antidote myself."

"... what are you doing this for?"

"No, you've decided that. If you have the neck of a princess general who has been tormenting you all over the place to get down to the Bestian Empire, you will be treated favourably.... Hey, you really had a hard time, huh? First of all, Elaine's sharp when it's normal, Custe. Ara, or the other Knights are on the escort, so I didn't have my hands or my legs. … so the information on the altar of inheritance came up there. I was expecting the three of us to be about one from Uncle Larks Borderline in relation to a place with a dungeon, but it was a Dompisha. It's just that the biggest miscalculation ever happened to my dad, and I limited myself to being a Rank D Adventurer, and the Rank D Adventurer at the heart of it was out of line like Ray."

The sound of biting your back teeth tight echoes around you. The sound comes naturally from Custe.

"You... you have no pride as a nobleman!

"Proud? It's less than dust to be proud of that if you try it on me. Thanks to that pride, I couldn't kill anybody but the war."

"Come on!"

"Well, enough explaining? Then it's time for this stage to end."

Pattin 'fingers, Ver. Then Custe's body moves out on its own, and sets the demon spear in its hand toward Ray.

"Nah!?

"That's the effect of the magic pills Custe has been taking. Plus..."

Once again pattin 'his fingers, the next moment Custe was kicking the ground and poking that demon spear toward Ray and shrinking his intermission.

"Come on, avoid it!

Custe screams so, even as he is forced to move by a body that will not be free. I dodge Custe's attack in order not to be able to be properly attacked as Ray, and I go straight past the side and tap Death Size into Ver. That's what I was gonna do...

"What!?

From Ray and Custe, a surprise voice leaks at the same time.

If you try to lay it down, because you've seen demon spears sticking out at speeds that are not comparable to the attacks you've seen to attack the dungeons. And if I tried Custe, it was because my body was moving faster, sharper, and stronger than usual.

Ray plays the demon spear protruded in its sharp motion, waving the death size in an almost reflective motion.

"Hahaha. Surprised? Surprised! Custe's physical abilities are twice what they usually are today... no, they're up to nearly three times higher. See, this is why I could afford it."

Avoid, prevent, or indulge in Custe's demon spears, which are released continuously, while listening to Vel screaming in his specialty.

A short distance from it has begun the battle between Golem and Seto, which has repeatedly meant avoiding the blow of the long sword that Golem has, and using sharp eagle claws to fight back, sharpening the surface of the shield.

"Ver, you! Free manipulation of my body... I will never forgive you!

Custe screams as if he was governed by the emotion of fury, but Ver watched the battle between Custe and Ray as funny as if such anger had nothing to do with it at all.

"Look, can you look at me? Custe's body is on its way to Ray."

"Come on!"

A triple penetration of Custe protruded three times in a row with his belly, chest, throat. Ray plays all of that in a death-size pattern. There is no rushing color on that face that I felt until about a few seconds ago. No matter how much more Custe's physical abilities he manipulates freely, he still manipulates them forcibly and forcefully. It's not like Custe himself can use all of the tricks he's done.

(No, is it correct that I am using that gem power to force up Custe's physical abilities to make up for that unusable portion, to be precise)

While I think so, I play the blow of the demon spear that came to pay for my right leg with a death-size pattern poked to the ground instead of a shield.

"Damn!"

No matter how much physical capability you've enhanced, the Death Size itself weighs more than 100 kg, while at the same time manipulating it is a ray with extrahuman physical capability. Custe's blow, which was originally planned to rip off his leg, causes paralysis in Custe's hand for the portion of his strength that was enhanced by being bounced into a death-size pattern.

But it won't stop. Use the momentum played as it is to rotate on the spot, swinging the demon spear from the left side of the ray to try to get a blow in.

Quickly back down and dodge that blow, make sure the demon spear passes in front of you, then quickly kick the ground and kill the intermission with Custe.

"Don't die."

Whimpering, he slams a death-size pattern in for Custe's dovetail!

It was a blow to prune Custe's consciousness...

"but ugh!

Custe's consciousness remained preserved even if for some reason he took a blow to the dovetail.

It is true that Custe is equipped with a full body armor called a full plate, so his defense is high. But the blow now was a blow that even smashed its armor and was fired at the dovetail. But while eating that blow, which normally would have definitely passed out first, Custe remained conscious, distorting his expression in agony.

"Hahahahaha. I can't. Custe doesn't imitate losing his mind right now... No, I can't. That's all the enhancements. But there must be a terrible amount of pain all over your body at that price. Hey, Custe. How do you feel? Isn't it a great humiliation for a prized Custe not to be free and not to lose your mind?

The bottom of my heart is funny, and Ver just laughs.

"... let it go"

"Huh? Did I say something? I don't want to hear you cry like you want me to kill you anymore, me."

"Kill me... fight him! Ray!"